Month: November 2016

I once heard that there was once a woman, long ago, who became known as the primordial Eve. Not by her own people, presumably, as they cannot have known what her descendants would become, but by modern scientists; geneticists who spend their lives in laboratories, examining the immense data of the human genome. We are…

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Every blogger loves a blogging tips post. We absolutely lap it up, seizing on anything with the word “blog” in the title as we scroll through Twitter. And every blogger has written one. Not a day goes by without someone spouting forth their wisdom on what they’ve learned in two weeks of blogging. But sometimes,…

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When it comes to being single, I am the most experienced person I know. Tedious online dates where you get talked at for hours? Check. Turning up to discover a date who is unrecognisable from the photos they posted online? Check. Escaping halfway through because “something bad happened”? Been there too. And the only thing…

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This morning, as I imagine many others around the world also did, I awoke and reached immediately for my phone. Not, as is my usual custom, to simply turn off the alarm. Not this morning. I don’t generally make a point of going straight onto a news website at 6am. I’m usually more interested in…

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“I’ve only got, like 50 followers.” “I’ve got 32.” “I’ve got TEN.” “I don’t know what followers are, but then I only started blogging last week. Why haven’t I won any awards yet?” “I never get approached by any companies with any budget. It’s like, will you give us these 60 follow links for free…